- From: Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:26:22 +0100
- To: W3C AIKR CG <public-aikr@w3.org>, SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>
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Greetings W3C AI KR CG cc SWIG (FYI), (you may skip the rant and go straight to the links ) not sure how many here are in festive joyous mode. Things are tough, a lot are falling apart everywhere.Incomprehensible, logically inconsistent layers of data and processes that cannot be understood let alone verified. Facts that contradict each other, sources that are not accountable. Things that do not follow, what is false but said to be true pervades our systems, our lives. With awful things happening between the cracks. I am glad we have an AI KR CG because we can maintain and share a long thread of issues pivotal not only to AI, which is driving scientific and technological progress across the board. but also pivotal to our cognitive processes, which are central to maintaining our mental health https://mhcc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2016.02.17._supporting_cognitive_functioning-_mhcc_version__v._11__.pdf How long can people continue to maintain their sense of purpose, direction and orientation without KR, in this otherwise flimsical world. I ll be brief with my season's greetings and just take the opportunity to share the xmas holiday reader for those who are still learning (most of us, I hope) 1. This NYT article <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/upshot/long-covid-disability.html> mentions that AMERICANS are under a cognitive fog, Oh Well. Not just americans. From my perspective, being persistently deceived by the media, and now by the internet, presented with fragmented inconsistent logic is designed to break people's ability to think. It is called mind wrecking and it is a well established tactic of psychological abuse. It is easier to break people when they are disoriented One the one hand we have been building open data, the open web, open standards. the common good, on the other hand we are being consistently ruled and driven by adversarial approaches (designed to deceive and being dysfunctional) Some think this cognitive fog is being deliberately inflicted to people by folks who know what they are doing and their funding agencies and those who hire them A talk on psychological abuse (PA) <https://sites.google.com/view/psyabu/home> points to how misleading and manipulative information messes up with people and social networks etc . Things can get complicated. The talk is generic about PA but it ends up mentioning the role of KR and AI and possibly the web at large 2. The Atlantic makes a good point: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/12/internet-information-trends-virality-tracking/676888> SORRY BEHIND PAYWALL BUT READ THE FIRST FREE PARAGRAPHS TO GET A SENSE and a pointer to 3 3. Follows on from 2, The Verge: AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born <https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23773914/ai-large-language-models-data-scraping-generation-remaking-web> Santa, can we have the good old web back please Good wishes for 2024 PDM
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